All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? James Hillman Read Quote
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one. James Hillman Read Quote
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? James Hillman Read Quote
My suggestion is that there’s no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There’s no way out. They’re a misery, all of them. James Hillman Read Quote
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. James Hillman Read Quote
I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. James Hillman Read Quote
I think we’re miserable partly because we have only one god, and that’s economics. James Hillman Read Quote
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. James Hillman Read Quote
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don’t want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. James Hillman Read Quote
